a human being, whether male or female

1. generically, to include all human individuals

2. to distinguish man from beings of a different order

   1. of animals and plants

   2. of from God and Christ

   3. of the angels

3. with the added notion of weakness, by which man is led into a mistake or prompted to sin

4. with the adjunct notion of contempt or disdainful pity

5. with reference to two fold nature of man, body and soul

6. with reference to the two fold nature of man, the corrupt and the truly Christian man, conformed to the nature of God

7. with reference to sex, a male

indefinitely, someone, a man, one

in the plural, people

joined with other words, merchantman

it is necessary, there is need of, it behooves, is right and proper

1. necessity lying in the nature of the case

2. necessity brought on by circumstances or by the conduct of others toward us.

3. necessity in reference to what is required to attain some end

4. a necessity of law and command, of duty, equity

5. necessity established by the counsel and decree of God, especially by that purpose of his which relates to the salvation of men by the intervention of Christ and which is disclosed in the Old Testament prophecies

   1. concerning what Christ was destined finally to undergo, his sufferings, death, resurrection, ascension

in, by, with etc.

solitary, lonely, desolate, uninhabited

1. used of places

   1. a desert, wilderness

   2. deserted places, lonely regions

   3. an uncultivated region fit for pasturage

2. used of persons

   1. deserted by others

   2. deprived of the aid and protection of others, especially of friends, acquaintances, kindred

   3. bereft

      1. of a flock deserted by the shepherd

      2. of a woman neglected by her husband, from whom the husband withholds himself

according as

1. just as, even as

2. in proportion as, in the degree that

since, seeing that, agreeably to the fact that

when, after that

and, also, even, indeed, but

Moses = "drawing out"

1. the legislator of the Jewish people and in a certain sense the founder of the Jewish religion. He wrote the first five books of the Bible, commonly referred to as the Books of Moses.

this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

in this manner, thus, so

snake, serpent

with the ancients, the serpent was an emblem of cunning and wisdom. The serpent who deceived Eve was regarded by the Jews as the devil.

a son

1. rarely used for the young of animals

2. generally used of the offspring of men

3. in a restricted sense, the male offspring (one born by a father and of a mother)

4. in a wider sense, a descendant, one of the posterity of any one,

   1. the children of Israel

   2. sons of Abraham

5. used to describe one who depends on another or is his follower

   1. a pupil

son of man

1. term describing man, carrying the connotation of weakness and mortality

2. son of man, symbolically denotes the fifth kingdom in Daniel 7:13 and by this term its humanity is indicated in contrast with the barbarity and ferocity of the four preceding kingdoms (the Babylonian, the Median and the Persian, the Macedonian, and the Roman) typified by the four beasts. In the book of Enoch (2nd Century) it is used of Christ.

3. used by Christ himself, doubtless in order that he might intimate his Messiahship and also that he might designate himself as the head of the human family, the man, the one who both furnished the pattern of the perfect man and acted on behalf of all mankind. Christ seems to have preferred this to the other Messianic titles, because by its lowliness it was least suited to foster the expectation of an earthly Messiah in royal splendour.

son of God

1. used to describe Adam (Lk. 3:38)

2. used to describe those who are born again (Lk. 20:36) and of angels and of Jesus Christ

3. of those whom God esteems as sons, whom he loves, protects and benefits above others

   1. in the OT used of the Jews

   2. in the NT of Christians

   3. those whose character God, as a loving father, shapes by chastisements (Heb. 12:5-8)

4. those who revere God as their father, the pious worshippers of God, those who in character and life resemble God, those who are governed by the Spirit of God, repose the same calm and joyful trust in God which children do in their parents (Rom. 8:14, Gal. 3:26), and hereafter in the blessedness and glory of the life eternal will openly wear this dignity of the sons of God. Term used preeminently of Jesus Christ, as enjoying the supreme love of God, united to him in affectionate intimacy, privy to his saving councils, obedient to the Father's will in all his acts

to lift up on high, to exalt

metaph.

1. to raise to the very summit of opulence and prosperity

2. to exalt, to raise to dignity, honour and happiness